ALBUM REVIEW: ENTER SHIKARI – A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD

Having released their first album, ‘Take to the Skies’, back in 2007, it’s fair to say that Enter Shikari have had their fair share of experience in the realm of music that is the rock genre. Putting their own electronic spin on heavier music, the band have built a huge amount of support, with over […]
Let’s face it, for all the good social media can do, it can also be an absolute cesspit of garbage, but thankfully in the case of Silver Moth the power of twitter was actually put to good use as these songs developed following twitter exchanges between multi-instrumentalist Elisabeth Elektra and Abrasive Trees songwriter/guitarist Matthew Rochford […]

ALBUM REVIEW: SILVER MOTH – BLACK BAY

ALBUM REVIEW: THE SHITS – YOU’RE A MESS

I started my musical journey I want to say eight years ago with listening to psych music from the absolute rock gods Smashing Pumpkins. I argue I haven’t dropped the sound or wave, if you will, that entices you into a journey of experiencing music. A kind that widens the horizon of peculiar music genres. […]
The Hold Steady may have emerged in the early 2000’s yet what set them apart from the other (also amazing) bands which emerged from NY in that era, was that their sound seemed to come from a different inspirational source completely, less spiky garage rock, preferring instead to drink from a similar well as Springsteen […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE HOLD STEADY – THE PRICE OF PROGRESS

NEWS: CORY HANSON RELEASES NEW VIDEO FOR TWINS

Released on the Drag City label, Cory Hanson’s new single ‘Twins’ is another blast of psyched up rock n roll, taken from his third album, due to be released in June, A uniquely eccentric yet melodic songwriter! Cory Hanson Video – Twins
There are certain bands whose music has the power to transport you back to a particular point in your life, all it takes is a few notes, and your mind drifts into nostalgia, the days and nights out, friends you knew back then. Listening to ‘The Complete Singles’ by Inspiral Carpets I’m instantly back in […]

ALBUM REVIEW: INSPIRAL CARPETS – THE COMPLETE SINGLES

ALBUM REVIEW: GORILLAZ – CRACKER ISLAND

A first post-pandemic album by the group avoids market rollouts and a concept-heavy narrative in favour of showcasing the band’s effect on pop’s today and tomorrow, to include a strong new future.  I finally won! I finally did it! I listened to a Gorillaz album and absolutely loved it. Involving nuance features that arguably differ […]
It might be glib to suggest that anyone apart from government sponsored purveyors of dodgy PPE had a good pandemic but Ajay Saggar definitely used the time productively. Between January 2021 and June 2022, he spent most days at his Soundation Studios recording and mixing music aided by a top team of collaborators, the result […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BHAJAN BHOY: TO LOVE IS TO LOVE (VOL.1 & 2)

ALBUM REVIEW: GNOOMES – AX OX

A psychedelic twist on electronic music is what Gnoomes have been carefully crafting over their four albums, now having fled their home country of Russia, and relocated elsewhere, their latest album is awash with hypnotic electronica. Opening track ‘Ural Sun’ sounds like a dystopian dream, with deep rumbling sounds which build into a mountainous soundscape […]
It’s testament to the musical ambition of Mogwai that more than twenty-five years years after they started they can now sell out Manchester’s Albert Hall so fast a second date had to be added. Not bad for a band whose spellbinding tunes mostly consist of epic instrumentals with minimal vocals. Having recently spoken to Stuart […]

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